Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...senior proctor has warned undergraduates that Billy Graham must not be kidnaped when he arrives in Cambridge today." This stern warning in the varsity newspaper greeted Evangelist Graham when he arrived for a week-long revival that was certainly one of the strangest weeks ever known by Cambridge, whose attitude toward religion has long been intellectual, skeptical, or slightly pained...
...Evangelist Graham's sponsor was CICCU-the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union-called "Kick You" by both its friends and enemies. The 400 undergraduate members stimulate many of their fellow students and dons to snorts of irritation at their frankly anti-intellectual attitude and their assurance that they alone have the Gospel of Christ. "Why, didn't you know?" said one classics student last week. "In Cambridge, Christ is the property of CICCU." "But you can't enter into CICCU's Christ," said another, "because they have only one part of Him-the crucified part...
...brass-throated singers, Billy Sunday's sack suit, white waistcoat, wing collar and spats were put through some of the strangest performances ever enacted in the name of religion. The show awed even the reporters, who sat below the stage in a fine rain of perspiration from the evangelist's flailing arms and contorted brow...
...confidence. Sunday's product was relatively painless. Only a hog-jowled anarchist, an evil foreign monarch or a bedizened society woman could object to it. Billy's converts did not have to wrestle with the Lord on their knees and publicly confess their sins. They accepted the evangelist's big, red-blooded handshake and sometimes they signed a vague little pledge card...
This year Radio Evangelist Michaux. who calls his sect the "Gospel Spreading Association," produced five Spectaculars. At the first (Memories of the Cross), the devil was buried in a glass casket with full funeral rites. At the second (The Heart of My Lord Was Broken for Me), an electrical bleeding heart spilled crimson liquid on twelve female "penitent sinners" while the choir sang Fountain Filled with Blood. The third (Jesus...